From Procrastination to Productivity: Making It Easier with WebWork

Productivity and procrastination - the buzzwords that occupy the mind of pretty much everyone nowadays. Especially with the rise of remote work and the introduction of more digital tools into our lives, it’s easier than ever to start procrastinating during work. That is why it is now even more important to learn to be productive.

We’ve all been there, let’s admit it. Picking up the phone mid-work and our finger automatically navigating to social media and suddenly half an hour has passed. Sometimes you try to go back to work but something else grabs your attention and here you are postponing work again.

Luckily, there are solutions. While some people manage to overcome the ordeal by themselves, others need assistance. WebWork is the solution to transitioning from procrastination to productivity.

In this article, we will look at WebWork and explore how it can help you turn your procrastination into peak productivity.

Introduction to WebWork

WebWork is a productivity monitoring platform tailored to the needs of especially remote workers. It’s not just a platform but also a technology that helps maximize productivity by analyzing it automatically and providing detailed analytics.

What makes WebWork stand out as a productivity tool?

What sets WebWork apart is how it enables you to be productive from anywhere. While traditionally work productivity is associated with being in the office, WebWork has proven wrong multiple times. In fact, many teams are thriving and being highly productive in a remote environment all due to WebWork.

With a focus on improving productivity and time management, WebWork also offers complete work management with built-in task management, communication tools, and work-life balance technology.

#1. Improve how you manage time with little to no effort

When you start working towards becoming more productive, learning to manage time properly is the first step. For someone who gets easily distracted and can’t stay focused on an important task for long, managing time wisely may be an ordeal. That is when productivity tools like WebWork come to save the situation.

Instead of managing your time by merely trying to stay focused on each task as it comes, use a more tried-and-tested approach.

As a Forbes article suggests, the first thing you should do is to audit your time.

And what is a better way to audit time than using an automated time-tracking tool?

Whenever you start your day or workday, turn on the tracker, write whatever task you are working on, and start working. Do the same with the rest of your day. WebWork will then provide you with reports on how much time you spent on each task entered.

This way you will have your whole day in front of your eyes and can draw conclusions on how much productive you actually were.

#2. Prioritize your tasks

To better organize your time, you need to learn to prioritize your tasks first. One of the best ways to do that is to use the Covey Time Management Matrix. It works by organizing your tasks into 4 quadrants called:

1. Urgent and important

2. Not urgent but important

3. Urgent but important

4. Not urgent and not important

   WebWork enables you to do that so that all your to-dos are nice and clear. To make the priority levels clear, you can add the tasks to its built-in Task Management and mark the priority as high, medium, or low.

Accordingly, you can break down your time based on the priorities for that day. Plus when you track how much time each task takes, you get a clear idea of how much to allocate for others.

#4. Be productive in a healthy way

Some people think being productive means getting done as much as possible even if it means working till midnight. Instead of being productive, you will end up burnt out and exhausted.

In fact, it is the hustle culture that’s partially to blame for this. Though there is a gradual decline in its popularity, it is still partially ingrained in the idea of productivity. The new approach to work that emerged during the pandemic especially, is to value personal life more. Some people are even ready to take a pay cut if it means a better work-life balance.

But don’t get disheartened yet. You don’t have to get a pay cut to embrace your personal life.

WebWork helps prioritize work and personal life equally.

How?

Whenever WebWork notices signs of overworking, it gives reminders to finish work. You can customize the reminders to your preferences. It gives you two types of reminders - one to prevent you from working too much and the other to nudge you towards your goals outside of work.

These can be about drinking more water, doing eye exercises, remembering about your hobbies and goals, spending more time with family, and more.

Other than reminding, in productivity insights, WebWork also shows you the productivity level of each day, including if it is more than normal. This way you clearly see your work pattern.

How exactly to become productive with WebWork?

Transitioning to a productive routine requires a fundamental shift in your approach to your own work process. It involves changing your perspective on how you manage time and how you do work.

What WebWork does is it helps you create an established and focused workspace and gives you the right tools for maximized productivity.

#1. Establishing a dedicated and focused workspace

To be productive at work and have no place to procrastinate, you need a dedicated and focused workspace, even if it is digital.

Organize all your tasks and daily to-dos in one place where you can track their progress and stay focused. WebWork helps you stay focused on your work by monitoring your work process and detecting non-productive patterns. Whenever you go on suspicious apps and websites, WebWork opens a pop-up telling you to go back to work.

To make the experience customized, you can manually select which apps and websites WebWork should consider non-productive.

This way there is a lower risk of procrastinating by going on YouTube or Reddit during work.

#2. Benefiting from the right tools

To be able to be productive, you need the right tools. WebWork provides you with automated time management, built-in task management, productivity management, and work-life balance.

Instead of constantly jumping from one tool to another and running the risk of getting off track, you have one tool that does it all.

And what’s good about WebWork is that it works for everyone, from remote teams to freelancers and office-based employees.

Confronting Challenges (cause they are inevitable)

No matter how productive you aim and struggle to be, there are going to be challenges. And in order to overcome them, you need to be aware and prepared for them.

The main challenges that you are very likely to encounter may be:

#1. Traces of procrastination

It is foolish to think that the transition from procrastination to productivity is abrupt. The best way to describe it is that it is a marathon, not a sprint. It takes time and effort. And even when you think you have mastered it, there may still be traces of procrastination in your life.

Maybe during the weekends, you find yourself struggling to get out of bed or work out. Some people start beating themselves up for not constantly being productive.

But take a pause. You don’t have to and can’t be productive all the time. Breaks are necessary if you want to be productive in a healthy way.

So instead of beating yourself up, do at least the minimum for that day and continue on the next day.

#2. Overwhelm

The opposite can also happen. Being overly productive can result in feelings of overwhelm. As being productive usually assumes doing and managing as much as you can, it can naturally result in feelings of overburden. While you might think it is a sign of being productive, it can have adverse results as well.

Not only feelings of being overwhelmed but also burnout.

So whenever you start noticing you’re feeling overwhelmed, take a pause and reevaluate your perception of productivity. It is better to manage less but be efficient than try to manage as much as possible and burn out.

While productivity is important, you need to prioritize your well-being in order to be productive.

#3. Consistency

Transitioning from procrastination to productivity implies quite a change in daily routine. One of the hardest parts is consistency. To build a habit of being productive, you need to stay consistent.

It means waking up at the same time every day, sticking to your daily routine, and following all the other rules you’ve set for yourself.

While it is ok to sometimes feel unmotivated and want to give up, BUT you need to show up. You need to get out of bed, you need to do your morning workout, even if it’s just a stretch or two.

In order to be consistent, you need to do at least the bare minimum, but you need to do it every single day.

Wrapping up

While occasional procrastination is normal, it can be detrimental if it is constant. So if you have made up your mind to finally take the situation under control and become productive, you’re on the right track.

Remember that the transition from procrastination to productivity is a marathon, not a sprint. WebWork is designed to help you maximize productivity. So follow the tips mentioned in this article and let WebWork assist you in becoming more productive day by day.